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Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 11 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Russia

Second Language

Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Interesting Facts

In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Similar To

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 15 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 7 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 11 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Cyrillic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 17 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

30,000.00

Rank: 83 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Olonets

Where They Speak

Olonets

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.00

Rank: 2 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Novgorod

Where They Speak

Novgorod

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.00

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million

Rank: 6 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

2.33 %

Rank: 9 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

166.00 million

Rank: 8 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million

Rank: 7 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Русский

Alternative Names

Russki

French Name

russe

German Name

Russisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Russians

History

Origin

1000 AD

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

Slavic

Branch

Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Standard Russian

Language Position

Rank: 7 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed Russian

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus

ISO 639 2/B

rus

ISO 639 3

rus

ISO 639 6

rus

Glottocode

russ1263

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Russian

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Russian Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Russian Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Russian. Russian phonology gives Russian vowels and Russian consonants. There are 10 vowels and 21 consonants in Russian language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Russian is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Russian language is given in detail in this section.

All Russian countries

Want to explore all Russian countries? About Russian language serves you with all Russian Speaking Countries. Countries that use Russian as official language are called as Russian countries.

Countries that use Russian as their National Language are: Russia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Russian as second language are: Afganistan.

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Learn Russian greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Russian Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Russian language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Russian language.Learn Russian greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank you: спасибо(spasibo)
Good Morning: Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Good Evening: Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon: Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

All Russian Language Codes

Get to know all Russian language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Russian Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.